{"id":130692,"date":"2020-04-24T08:46:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T13:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=130692"},"modified":"2020-04-24T08:46:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T13:46:14","slug":"swcd-celebrates-65th-stewardship-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2020\/04\/24\/swcd-celebrates-65th-stewardship-week\/","title":{"rendered":"SWCD celebrates 65th Stewardship Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a part of the Van Wert County for 71 years, the Van Wert Soil &amp; Water Conservation District wants to remind people that each of them has a connection to the county\u2019s natural resources. In partnership with the National Association of Conservation Districts (NACD), the Van Wert SWCD is celebrating the 65th year of Stewardship Week, April 26-May 3, focusing on the theme \u201cWhere Would We BEE Without Pollinators?\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/SWCD-BEE-a-pollinator-artwork-4-2020.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-130693\" width=\"250\" height=\"260\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Pollinators form the underpinning of a healthy and sustainable future for food and the environment, but they have shown disturbing signs of decline in recent years.&nbsp;When pollinators shrink in number, many plants either produce less seed or no seed at all. Most plants depend upon pollinators to reproduce. There are more than 100,000 species of insects, including bees, flies, moths, butterflies, and beetles, and over 1,000 species of other animals such as birds, reptiles and mammals, including bats, that pollinate plants. Your local conservation district can assist you in maintaining or developing habitat for pollinators.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPollinators play a critical role in our ecosystems every day,\u201d&nbsp;NACD President Tim Palmer said. \u201cIt\u2019s important that we work to learn how we can protect their habitat in our communities.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Free, downloadable Stewardship Week resources celebrating the theme \u201cWhere Would We BEE Without Pollinators?\u201d are available on NACD\u2019s website at&nbsp;<a>\/www.nacdnet.org\/store\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Van Wert SWCD is a member of NACD, which oversees the annual Stewardship Week program. Stewardship Week is one of the largest national annual programs to promote conservation. NACD represents the nation\u2019s 3,000 conservation districts, which were established to encourage resource conservation across the country.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information As a part of the Van Wert County for 71 years, the Van Wert Soil &amp; Water Conservation District wants to remind people that each of them has a connection to the county\u2019s natural resources. In partnership with the National Association of Conservation Districts (NACD), the Van Wert SWCD is celebrating the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 22:15:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}